Ambassador Tariq Aqrawi recounts the story of how his brother Zeki Akreyi lost his eye protecting Genera Mulla Mustafa Barzani: in 1971, Saddam Hussein rigged several religious clerics with explosives in one of the more elaborate and bizarre assassination attempts on the Kurdish leader. Many guards and associates lost their lives, and the failed attempt was part of the reason for the breakdown of the peace agreement between Barzani and the Baathist government signed one year earlier. Click here for the full story